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- Documentary on Otis Redding's performance at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival.
- Inside a warehouse, a precarious 70-100 feet long structure has been constructed using various items. When this is set in motion, a chain reaction ensues. Fire, water, law of gravity as well as chemistry determine the life-cycle of objects - of things. It brings about a story concerning cause and effect, mechanism and art, improbability and precision.
- A charming valentine to women born with a space between their teeth.
- The life and work of the writer Sukumar Ray, Satyajit Ray's father. Ray made this film as a tribute to celebrate the centenary of his birth. The film comprises still photographs and readings from Sukumar Ray's writings.
- Sister Marion Irvine and Gail Roper tell how they overcame personal obstacles, as well as social pressures against female athletes, to become world-class competitors. They help motivate viewers to strive to become the best they can be, regardless of age.
- About foreign power secret activities in Sweden which are conducted i.a. through infiltration, sabotage and coup preparations.
- "My character in the film, played by myself, becomes ill and dies on the operating table. He then has a life-after-death experience, including visions of zombie children, Lucille Ball, Linda Evans and AIDS victim Rock Hudson.
- As one of the first films about AIDS to be nationally televised on PBS, Living With AIDS tells the compelling story of Todd Coleman, a 22 year old gay man with AIDS, and those who cared for him during the last weeks of his life. Todd, his lover, doctor, nurse, social worker and two volunteers reveal the human realities and the importance of practical support, friendship and unconditional love. Filmed both before and after Todd's death, Living With AIDS shows the full scope of the disease's effect on a patient and his care partners and provides a model for compassionate community response to the AIDS epidemic. Living With AIDS was broadcast on P.O.V., PBS's premiere showcase for independent documentaries, the Sundance Channel and foreign television. It has also been screened at film festivals and cultural institutions around the world. Living With AIDS was funded in part by the Louis B. Mayer Film Fellowship, the Funding Exchange, the Pioneer Fund and the Chicago Resource Center.
- In this music video mockumentary, Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist trains her camera on the nude male body, challenging the tropes of the genre and of pop culture in general, as her anonymous male subject is more puppet than pop star.
- Filmmakers Sue Marx and Pamela Conn document the romance between Sue's father Louis Gothelf and Reva Shwayder, each in their mid-80s. Both artists and residents of the Detroit suburbs, they met on a group tour of England after being widowed, and quickly formed a strong connection over shared interests. The two discuss concerns over living together without being married; Louis also talks about his caring for his first wife during her ten-year struggle with Alzheimer's disease, while Reva talks about the deaths of two sons several years after her husband's death.
- Russian singer Fyodor Chaliapin is interred in a Moscow cemetery, and his 3 daughters visit his Leningrad house, after which the film shows us the old USSR the artist abandoned in 1922, some say betrayed, to seek a better life in Paris.
- Documentary showing how dinosaurs have been used in films. Trailers and scenes from moving about or with dinosaurs are shown.
- A look at homelessness in Los Angeles.
- Through interviews and dramatizations, the film examines social attitudes towards relationships between older women and younger men.
- An examination of the various sexist elements in modern advertising.
- Documentary created for Dutch TV, offering an insight into Nick Cave's Berlin years as the early formation of The Bad Seeds occurred amid a swirling and chaotic rock and roll lifestyle
- A culture documentary with no narration released by IMAX in 1987.
- In this short documentary, Oscar®-winner Terre Nash turns her lens on Marion Dewar, one of Canada's most successful female politicians, while she was mayor of Ottawa. In her 7 years as mayor, Dewar was instrumental in the Rideau Centre project, introduced disarmament referendums into municipal politics, was the leading force in raising Canada's quota for Vietnamese refugees, and became known for her social responsibility and common sense.
- Following a simple linear narrative, the film depicts children and adolescents, carefree or bitter, happy or disenchanted, living in the slums of the city of Roubaix, in the North of France.
- A film made in tribute to Steven Spielberg for his 40th birthday.
- Gil Cardinal searches for his natural family and an understanding of the circumstances that led to his becoming a foster child.
- A Vietnamese documentary on human suffering and the meaning of kindness.
- Frances Steloff: Memoirs of a Bookseller is a wonderfully dynamic portrait of an American cultural heroine. Now 100 years old, Frances Steloff was the founder and force behind the renowned Gotham Book Mart of New York City, a center for avant-garde literature and literati since 1920. She began with only $100 and thirty books and she modestly recalls her role in the bookstore's past.
- Follows the County Sheriff's special gang unit in South Central L.A.
- Four families come to understand their deaf child's need for language.